Motor vehicle steering column

A motor vehicle steering column including a steering shaft, a steering wheel having a hub thereon, and a lateral thrust attachment between the steering shaft and the hub of the steering wheel. In a first preferred embodiment, the lateral thrust attachment includes a cylindrical passage in the hub having a pair of flat sides converging in a V-shape, a first cylindrical journal on the steering shaft in the cylindrical passage in the hub having a matching pair of the flat sides converging in a V-shape, a laterally eccentric cylindrical cavity in the hub around a second cylindrical journal on an end of the steering shaft, and an eccentric sleeve on the second cylindrical journal in the eccentric cavity. In a second preferred embodiment, lateral thrust between the hub and the steering shaft is induced directly by a rod on the hub which laterally traverses the end of the steering shaft. The rod has a frustoconical body which seats in a correspondingly shaped notch in the steering shaft so that bodily movement of the rod relative to the notch induces the aforesaid lateral thrust between the hub and the steering shaft. The rod interfere with the lateral notch to prevent dislodgement of the hub from the steering shaft.